How “Free Trade” Is Stealing Our Democracy – Long before the 2010 Supreme Court Decision in Citizens United ruled that corporations as persons are entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government, Jane Anne Morris had written, spoken out, and campaigned on the decades long efforts of US corporations to use the Supreme Court to expand and solidify their power. She likens the US Supreme Court to the infamous unelected panels that today, in international trade, are empowered to overrule the laws of entire countries – even the size of Canada and China – when they are putting restrictions on corporate trade, or have the audacity to protect the environment and labor.
Jane Anne Morris was one of the principal members of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD.org), a think tank of about a dozen individuals, co-founded by Ward Morehouse and Richard Grossman just before the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
Recorded one year before Citizens United this interview reflects Jane Anne Morris research of the previous decade. She was interviewed by Tom Lewiston on Network X in Seattle on January 10, 2009
A link to this interview on film is on <tucradio.org> Jane Anne Morris died on May 28th, 2019, in Madison, Wisconsin of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. She was about to complete a book on the role of the US Supreme Court in dismantling democracy. We hope that someone will be able to put together her notes.
There will be at least two more tributes to the memory of Jane Anne Morris coming up on TUC Radio.
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